"CARTH!"
I walk over to the bed where he is lying.
"You know this man?" Dr. Forn asks.
"Yeah... well, somewhat. We met..."
Carth groans and I immediately look at him. He is acting very restless, sweating profusely, and bleeding from his bite. I examine the bite more closely. I know that all the medicine in the world will not help him, except for the serum. Zelka had said that his friends were looking for it... wait a second. Friends? I thought he only knew Jared? Did he meet someone else? Another person who actually was willing to help? Someone he likes more then me? Another woman who was attracted to him from the get go like I was? Does he...
"Ms. Tieri? Are you okay?"
"Oh... yes doctor. I was just thinking of... of what I can do to help him."
I walk over to a table and take some ingredients out of the bag. I don't know any creams for rakghoul poison, but I do know how to make some creams for poison. Maybe they will buy Jared some time to get the serum. I quickly make the cream and walk back to Carth's side.
"Doctor?" a voice calls from his front office.
"I will be right back."
"Take your time doctor... there is nothing more you can do."
I turn my attention back to Carth. He was bit on the arm, so I take off his jacket so I can apply it to the skin. I hope he doesn't mind when he wakes up that his shirt is ripped in the arm, but I didn't want him to catch cold without a shirt... damn weather. I put the cream on the wound and Carth groans in pain.
"It only hurts for a minute. It will help... I hope." I say, looking at his face, not knowing if he can hear me.
After I finish applying the cream, I grab a towel and wipe the sweat off his face, trying to make him more comfortable, and also give myself a sense of accomplishment, that I actually did something. Even though, if I would have helped Carth in the first place, would this have happened? I highly doubt it, but hindsight is always 20/20. Nothing I can do now except try and save him, or at least make his last few moments as comfortable as possible.
"Please Carth... hold on. You're strong, just... don't leave me."
Carth's eyes flutter open and then shut. It seems as if he is fighting the poison. I smile, yet it doesn't stop a few tears from falling. I then remember my family, yet this time it's not memories of their demise. No, this time it is a very fond memory of mine, and the next thing I know, I am recalling the memory aloud.
"When I was little, before my brother was even born, my father was in trouble. It wasn't anything new for my mother, yet she still loved. She looked passed all his short comings and faults and saw her true love... her soul mate. The one person who could make her life worthwhile. Yet, he had to leave and hide from assassins who were coming after him. My mother wanted to go, yet he said that it was too dangerous and that... I needed her. He left, traveled down the rivers of our homeworld and we never saw him again. Yet, that night, my mother sang me a lullaby that I will never forget. I know that the it wasn't for me... it was for my father yet..."
I look at Carth and again wipe the sweat from his forehead. The tears have not stopped and I try and choke them back as I continue on.
"Hush now, my baby
Be still, love, don't cry
Sleep as you're rocked by the stream
Sleep and remember my last lullaby
So I'll be with you when you dream
River, o river
Flow gently for me
Such precious cargo you bear
Do you know somewhere
he can live free?
River, deliver him there."
"Seren..." Carth whispers through his pain.
"Don't strain Carth. I'm here; just hold on!"
He sighs, and opens his eyes. He looks straight into my eyes. His pain is reflected through them, which just makes more tears form just waiting to fall. He lifts his arm up and wipes them away.
"No, Carth. Stay still! Don't..."
"Sshhh..." he whispers as he wipes the tears from my face. "Don't cry... I'm.. fine."
I suppress a laugh and slightly smile at him. "You're kidding me, right?"
He forces a smile and says, "Tha..nk...you... Ser..."
"NO!"
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(song used is River Lullaby from the Prince of Egypt)